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None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

Benjamin Whichcote

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Benjamin Whichcote
Age: 74 †
Born: 1609
Born: January 1
Died: 1683
Died: January 1
Philosopher
Theologian
Stoke
Temptation
Till
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Known
Opportunity
Good

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Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.
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None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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He that repents is angry with himself I need not be angry with him.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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There is no better way to learn than to teach.
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